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Name: manemang
Date: March 23, 2002 at 18:08:53 Pacific
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error...mount point is busy or the allowable number of mount points have been exceeded. Please help. I'm try to install Oracle 8i on Solaris 8 on a Sparc Ultra



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Name: Paul
Date: March 24, 2002 at 07:57:27 Pacific
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This is the syntax for mounting a cdrom attached to an IDE controller.

# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0d0s2 /mnt

For a SCSI cdrom you'd need to change it to:

# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0tXd0s2 /mnt

Paul


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Name: Milind Palav
Date: June 18, 2002 at 02:25:13 Pacific
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The CD rom gets mounted but How do I use more than 8 character filenames? The filename appears with ¬(Tilda) sign and appears only 8 characters..

Can somebody help me????

Thanx in advance..

Milind.


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